Technology Telling Stories: New Dimensions in Film—Eno and Post-Screening Conversation with Gary Hustwit

Technology Telling Stories: New Dimensions in Film is a series of fresh new releases from the latest Sundance Film Festival including Dìdi (弟弟), Eno, and Seeking Mavis Beacon. The storytellers behind these films find innovative approaches of exploring the ways technology shapes our lives and the narratives we tell—about ourselves, each other, and the world. These public screenings take place across Los Angeles and feature post-screening conversations.

Eno is a generative documentary, created live in real time. The version of Eno shown at the Los Angeles premiere will be will never be seen again. The screening is followed by a conversation with director Gary Hustwit and special guests, a cocktail reception, and DJ performances.

Co-presented with Dublab.

Eno
Directed by Gary Hustwit, approximately 90 minutes

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno—known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums—reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary, a film that’s different every time it’s shown.

Eno utilizes a first-of-its-kind generative software system developed by Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes to combine new interviews with Eno’s rich archive of hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music. Each screening of Eno is unique, presenting different scenes, order, music, meant to be experienced live. The generative and infinitely iterative quality of Eno poetically resonates with the artist’s own creative practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his endless deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity.

"Partly a piece of art, partly an experiment in technology, Eno is a film that changes with every screening" —The Wrap

"Groundbreaking." —Rolling Stone

“Sleek, seamless, and compelling" —Variety